Rogelio López Cuenca for the 35th anniversary of Palmadotze

The Palmadotze gallery celebrates 35 years of history and celebrates with the opening of the exhibition 'Blood into Gold / Les Festes' by the artist Rogelio López Cuenca (Nerja, 1959).

Since the eighties, Rogelio López Cuenca has maintained his critical and transformative capacity. After decades of artistic production, his work remains a dialogue between word and image. From his first approaches to music and the visual arts, to his interventions in public space, the artist has explored the way in which the media, popular culture and urban space are vehicles for political and social expression.

'Do not Cross Art Scene', Rogelio López Cuenca (1991)

The exhibition, which will open tomorrow, Saturday, December 14, and can be visited until February, focuses on the work of López Cuenca from the 90s, starting with his stay as a fellow at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome , and continues with his exploration of the manifestations of the sacred in contemporary mass culture, a theme more current than ever.

López Cuenca's work uses images and texts linked to high and low culture as tools to question the system of representation and the power mechanisms that sustain it. Migration policies, new forms of urban speculation and strategies for the appropriation and manipulation of historical memory are some of the topics he deals with in his work, and he does so through a language that interpellates both the spectator as social structures.

This exhibition celebrates the gallery's 35 years and is also a retrospective and tribute to López Cuenca, thus inviting us to rethink our own relationship with culture, politics and history.

'Cuore', Rogelio López Cuenca (2016). ©Rogelio López Cuenca